CHIX talk with Pro Pickleball Coach Mark Price (PPR Certified)

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CHIX talk with Pro Pickleball Coach Mark Price (PPR Certified)

Bring me the next shiny new thing. The pickleball chicks are obsessed with America's fastest

growing sports pickable. Get ready for on and off the court hot topics, lots of last cocktails and champagne with your hosts, Annie and Rebecca. This is the pickleball CHIX nineth episode of the Pickleball Diaries where fun and laughter abounds, and the pickleball CHIX celebrate over 4000 Instagram followers. This episode is a great one, the CHIX chat with Mark Price with Mark Price Pickleball, making waves with pickleball as a Pro Pickleball player and coach with over 25 years of experience brings pickleball tips, strategy and more on Instagram, facebook, through his camps, clinics and children’s foundation.

Today’s “Word of the Day”

TIP (you guessed it) You know what to do – when you hear the word, “tip” have sip – join the fun with the CHIX!

Today’s In the Kitchen Cocktail

Iron Butterfly in honor of Rebecca’s Birthday.

History of the Shot:

Rebecca loves this drink, her husband drinks it, and Annie first heard about this from her friend Barb –oh so many years ago. YUM!!

What is the shot?

Bailey’s, Tito’s Vodka and Kahlua with some special sprinkles (love it) and a candle for Rebecca’s birthday!

Introducing Mr. Mark Price with Mark Price Pickleball. So special that he came across the pond,

making waves in the pickleball space with his instructional videos, camps, clinics and children’s foundation. Mark came to the United States for love! And – we love it! They met on Instagram – how cool is that!!

Tip Master (that is what the pickleball CHIX call MARK)

Rebecca asked what's your number one tip that you've ever given out? The one that the most people have commented on your Instagram? Mark needs to check with his media manager he's the Stat Master. (ha!)

Mark uses letters to coach with because he finds it is easy for his students to remember.

Pickleball Tip: The Three O’s of resetting

Off balance

Off course

Outstretched

When we are when we're pushed off court or we're off balance, we want to get them back. So we want to attack the player who made us feel uncomfortable. And it's the wrong move!

By attacking when you're off court, your whole court opens. So often, beginners will tend to get pushed off court or off balance and they're attacking back. And they're in a vulnerable position because they're not balanced, or they're off court.

New Pickleball Players

New pickleball players often are met with everybody and anybody who wants to tell new players the way pickleball should be played, where you should stand, and so forth. It becomes overwhelming and actually discouraging, which means, often it is no longer fun playing pickleball.

New Pickleball Player Tip

It is a common problem, whereas many circles across the nation, many people feel it is their right to coach and to instruct and to help. Their attitude, is “Let me help you play.” “Let me give me some advice.”

Many players who have been playing pickleball for years start by wanting to share the rules of the game, but it is almost like they are overstepping boundaries on the court.

Feeling overwhelmed by advice from so many different players is a common obstacle for many in their early pickleball journey, as often it is conflictive and becomes confusing for the new player. The most important thing is to enjoy the game, and to really, politely reject the advice.

As a coach, you are in a position where you are giving correction. And it's almost, you know, it's criticism, in a constructive way. But if it is not delivered in the right way or in the right environment, or if you haven’t been invited to coach, it is just seen as criticism, you're just criticizing, or you're jumping on mistakes.

Mark says it is important for beginners, especially to just enjoy playing. And it's okay to make mistakes, and recognize that you are going to make mistakes, rather than people jumping on your mistakes and correcting you or telling you what should be doing can make you more nervous and make more mistakes, Mark encourages new pickleball players to say that, you know, I'm learning. I just really want to have fun. I appreciate the advice, but I'd rather just listen to my friend who I'm here with. And just sort of say that I've got one friend has helped me learn the game. I don't really want to take your advice.

Mark’s Golden Rule for Coaching on the Court

As a professional coach, when Mark plays with friends, or when rec play, I'm not doing any coaching ever, unless I'm invited to coach. Mark sees coaching as a privilege and needs to needs to have the permission from the person receiving the pickleball coaching.

Mental Pickleball Tip

Mark states often, the mental aspect is an overlooked part of the game. As, as people advance, it really becomes the most important part of the game. You know, “the mental game, is what separates the good from the great” Michael Jordan says.

Top players in any field of sports often are ice cold, they're cool, they're calm, collected, they have the, they have the composure on courts, and they seem unflustered by when they're losing. And I think that, you know, allow your emotions to take over and again, is, is getting angry, getting upset, getting emotional, in the game can lead to your game falling apart.

There is a difference between psyching yourself up and becoming angry. So there's two different things I want. One is the deliberate action of getting yourself excited, come on, let's go and all these sort of things. And you're sort of amping yourself up. And the other is, is criticizing yourself. That was stupid, or, you idiot. This way you're criticizing yourself, or demeaning yourself in anger, or you're just upset or kicking the floor or whatever.

One is the negative and the other one is bringing you into a higher level of play. But I see that I see the top players in, in most sports are have just incredible composure. So they don't seem flustered, if they're winning or losing. They just seem very calm under pressure. And you look at the top players in the world, they just seem that they have their thoughts gathered. They're very focused, they're not showing emotion. They're not showing weakness or strength. They're just really in the in the moment in the game.

Self-Talk

Self-talk is a real key to the highest level in the mental game. I think that the sort of starting level is being positive, which is important. But if, if you only say, you know, you've got this keep going, you can do it, you're the best, you know, it's very surface level. And if you're losing eight, zero, you're saying you're the best, you're the best you've got your brains going well, if I'm a best, why am I losing?

Self-Talk Tip

Mark says, “you must go beyond just positive talk!

Your talk should be specific to the situation and should be positive and about solving the problem. Self-talk is more powerful than anyone else's talk to you. We speak 140 words per minute – self-talk is over 800 words a minute. Get ahold of your thoughts, and intentionally direct them into specifically targeting what needs to be done on the court in terms of how do solve this problem? And how do I win this game?

3.5 4.0 pickleball player tip to move into that next level

Mid-court areas become key for these players. Learn to defend from being attached to your feet, reset off the bounce and reset on the volley. Really working on that transition area.

So at the highest level, in any sport, you're looking at the difference of a reaction time increasing your explosive movement, increasing your speed, your coordination, we are taking milliseconds.

Rolling the ball versus hooking the ball.

Many advanced players can already reset, they already have good

roll volleys, they serve very well, and can reset the ball. So you're trying to

find a small area where you can expose an offense to disguise and through being

creative and having variety in your game. So you're not predictable. Such as

reducing the pace on an attack could be the difference. So you're attacking one

speed, and you reduce the pace, and you're changing, paying the change of pace

was the weapon, because it's invisible, you can't see change of pace.

Advanced Player Tip

Rolling the ball versus hooking the ball.

Listen to the entire podcast for additional tips, such as: ·

X-Strategy

Third-Shot Drives, Dinks or Lobs

Dinking

Mark Price Pickleball Camps and Clinics

Last year Mark Price Pickleball conducted over 20 camps across the states. This year, we're going global. So we're, we're going to be going to Jamaica, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Scotland, Germany, England. So we're all over all over the world. Check out their schedule online at: www.MarkPricePickleball.com

Mark Price Pickleball Foundation for Kids

Mark aims to bring love, joy, of pickleball and hope to the lives of underprivileged children, oth in the US and farther afield, by running (and providing the equipment for) Pickleball camps and events.

Learn more here: https://www.markpricepickleball.com/mark-price-pickleball-foundation

Mark has teamed up with Score International, learn more here: https://scoreintl.org/ and Saving Susan Ministry learn more here: https://www.savingsusanministry.org/

eBooks

Mark is releasing 5 eBooks – follow him on Instagram to learn more.

https://www.instagram.com/markpricepickleball/

Connect with Mark at www.MarkPricePickleball.com to learn more about all of Mark’s tips, camps, clinics, foundation work and more.

Thank you for joining us. We hope you share our show with your pickleball pals, and look forward to you joining us for our next podcast on March 15th where we will once again stir up the fun.

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